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South Korean film director Shin Sang-ok and his actress wife Choe Eun-hui have lived a life that sounds like a spy movie. They spent years as prisoners of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il. Choe was kidnapped in Hong Kong by secret agents in 1978. She says, “I was in such a worried state I couldn’t eat or drink anything for ages. Finally I fainted and later learned that they had injected me with some sort of sedative.” She was smuggled aboard a ship and taken to Pyongyang. Her husband flew from Seoul to Hong Kong to look for his her, and was also kidnapped. He says, “Someone suddenly pulled a sack over my head and I couldn’t see anything or breathe properly.read more

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If the greenhouse gas gobbling Jatoba tree, which grows in rainforests, could be planted in cold climates, it would help compensate for the CO2 given off by auto and power plant emissions. Swedish scientists now think they may be able to alter trees so they can adapt to new environments by manipulating the genes that tell them to change color and start dropping their leaves in the fall. This is one of the main reasons they’re able to survive through the winter. Scientists aren’t sure what triggers this change, although it may be shortened hours of daylight.
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U.S. intelligence thinks al-Qaeda may have nuclear weapons, and says a secret stash of nukes may still exist somewhere in Afghanistan. In December, enough low-grade uranium-238 was discovered in tunnels near a former al-Qaeda base there to make one “dirty” bomb. They probably got the material on the black market, which has been thriving ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union, as smugglers in former communist countries sell off old weapons. Dirty bombs usually aren’t powerful enough to blow up large structures, but they can spread radioactive contamination over a wide area.
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In our latest poll, we asked you what topics on Dreamland interest you the most. Here’s the list, in order of preference:

1. UFOs and Abductions 2. Lost Worlds of the Past 3. Secret Societies 4. Prophecy 5. Political Conspiracies 6. Psychics 7. Remote Viewing 8. Secrets of Mythology 9. Religion and Philosophy 10. Cryptozoology.
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